How to begin Initial hard-link creation?

[FreshFool]

Sonarr version (exact version): 3.0.10.1567
OS: linuxserver Docker image

Hey, I’ve been following the guides to install Sonarr within docker.

I’m not having any issues per se, I just can’t figure out how to do the initial sync / creation of hard-links.

My Docker host has the main folder /mnt/media, with 2 subfolders

- downloads/{shows/movies} # used for Qbittorrent downloads
- sorted /{shows/movies} # Should be used for Sonarr sorted media

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Here’s how I mount the directory for the Qbittorrent container:

/mnt/media/downloads/:/mnt/media/downloads/

I just realized while typing, that ^this^ might need to change to /media/downloads
EDIT: Changed it and updated all my fastresume files.

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For the Jellyfin container (Obviously this doesn’t work now, since there is nothing in the sorted folder. Before I used to mount directly from the downloads folder):

/mnt/media/sorted/shows:/data/tvshows/
/mnt/media/sorted/movies:/data/movies/

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And for the Sonarr container:

/mnt/media:/media/

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With all that out the way, I still don’t understand how I’m supposed to configure the Root Media folders, for Sonarr to create hard-links of media from the downloads folder, into the sorted folder?

Could anyone please advise?

[fanboy]

Not sure which guides you’ve been following since you don’t say. There are many out there that don’t do it well. Just use Trash

https://trash-guides.info/Hardlinks/How-to-setup-for/Docker/

[FreshFool]

I did use trash, alongside the official docs, but I still didn’t get how to import an existing library into Sonarr.

Is this what I’m missing? Replace copies with hardlinks - TRaSH Guides

I tried the command from my Docker host, but nothing interesting came out of it:

jdupes -rMX onlyext:mp4,mkv,avi "/mnt/media/downloads/shows/" "/mnt/media/sorted/shows/"
Scanning: [REDACTED] files, [REDACTED] items (in 2 specified)
No duplicates found.


No duplicates found.
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[fanboy]

https://wiki.servarr.com/sonarr/quick-start-guide#how-to-import-your-existing-organized-media-library